About every six months, I'll notice some article or discussion in Germany....on how Artificial Intelligence (A-I) is coming sooner or later to the Bahn (railway).
The basic idea? You'd arrange a AI program to 'drive' trains.
Coming anytime shortly? No. In fact, it's probably a 2040 concept by the time they finish up testing and sign off on this.
To infuriate current railway 'drivers'? Oh yes.
But here's the thing...when this eventually arrives....you can imagine a two-year period when half the German railway 'drivers' are given their papers and shown the front-door. In fact, the more they talk about reduced hours....getting themselves down to 35 man-hours a week....the more it's going to help in bringing A-I to replace them.
What a ex-train-driver does next? Unknown, and it might be curious to watch this unfold.
The odds by 2050....only ten-percent of the railway driver numbers of today exist? I'd give it overwhelming numbers.
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